Kentucky baseball drops game three, series against Tennessee

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) – Despite a pair of Wildcat home runs in the bottom of the ninth, No. 3 Kentucky baseball dropped game three to No. 4 Tennessee 13-11 at Kentucky Proud Park on Sunday afternoon, handing the Bat Cats their first Southeastern Conference series loss of the season.

Tennessee jumped out to a 2-0 lead before Kentucky responded with six straight runs across three innings to eventually take a four-run lead in the fifth. The competition was tied at one point in the sixth inning behind five runs from UT. The Volunteers’, specifically Christian Moore, refused to stop there.

Moore hit three homeruns on the day including a three-run bomb in the eighth inning to put the Vols up 13-9. Moore finished 4-for-5 with six RBI, a double and three homers.

In the ninth inning, Mitchell Daly hit his second home run of the game and Ryan Nicholson put one over the fence to battle back late, but the Vols closed out on a caught pop-fly to lockdown the series.

The Wildcats are now 15-3 in the SEC and 32-7 overall. Up next, the Cats travel to Columbia, S.C. for another ranked battle. The Wildcats and No. 20 Gamecocks open a three-game series on Friday at 7:00 p.m.

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